Bailey Reutzel

BitPay's recent decision to eliminate its fees for small merchants sacrifices some of the company's revenue to boost the larger Bitcoin economy.

Global Payments Inc., a global processor servicing more than one million merchants, will enable its clients to accept digital currency in a move that may attract more international shoppers to brick-and-mortar merchants.

Mobile card readers like Square and PayPal Here must inevitably offer an EMV-chip card option to U.S. merchants, but how soon is too soon? And what are the consequences of arriving too late?

Feedzai is launching new apps to enable the more than 150,000 online retailers using Shopify and Bigcommerce to protect their stores from cyber-criminals with machine-learning fraud detection software.

Square Inc. has purchased food delivery company, Caviar, in a move to add non-payment features to its mobile payment and ordering system.

As consumers extend their spending across the globe, the various hurdles they face are becoming targets of innovation.

SCVNGR's LevelUp is launching a gift card program to allow merchants to sell physical cards in-store and digital cards through the company's mobile wallet app.

Six-year-old Poppy Blacow and her father Rik watched a distant stage where Black Sabbath, the English rock band led by infamous lyricist Ozzy Osbourne, was playing. They wanted to get closer seats, but upgrading their tickets was a decidedly "classic rock" experience in need of a "modern rock" upgrade.

WEX Inc. is working to finalize several key acquisitions to bring the corporate payments provider into new markets.

For most of the digital currency's existence, the price of a bitcoin has swung wildly. Coinapult is looking to remove this risk with the launch of Coinapult Locks, which pins the value of a user's bitcoin balance to a stable asset.

The NFC tattoo is far different from the inked lettering and designs many people have. It's even a stretch to call it a "tattoo" – despite the branding, it's really more of an adhesive bandage with a high-tech spin.

Machine-learning fraud detection, which self-updates to adapt to fraud trends, is growing in popularity but hasn't rendered hands-on methods obsolete.

Visa will be counting on its bank partners to spread the message about its revamped Visa Checkout to consumers.

Zuman, a cloud-based human resource outsourcer, has partnered with BitPay to allow its business clients to pay their employees in bitcoin.

Red Pocket Mobile, a wireless company that offers contract-free phone and Internet service, is using Zipmark to allow customers to use digital checks to top up their accounts.

Bluetooth beacons, which can transmit offers to a nearby customer's smartphone and payment data to a merchant, have huge potential. But to get the most out of beacons, merchants have to place several of them throughout their stores, increasing the overall cost of deploying what is still a very new technology.

As technology gets more complex, the process of making a payment must remain simple, says Ryan Anderson, vice president of product at The Members Group (TMG).

San Francisco-based Pose, one of the many companies in the cloud-based mobile point of sale market, aims to differentiate itself by eliminating its $49 monthly subscription fee.

In The Members Group's innovation lab, engineers have been tinkering with an app that lets Glass users tap to make a payment.

As technology gets more complex, the process of making a payment must remain simple, says The Members Group. The vendor's innovation lab is keeping this philosophy in mind when it designs payment applications for new products like Google Glass